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lunes, 28 de febrero de 2011
(Almost) Everybody Loves Facebook
This week’s not surprising fact is that 52.2% of internet users log in to Facebook at least once a month. eMarketer says that number will climb to 62% by 2013 and after that, Facebook will simply take over the entire internet and we will all be made slaves to the “like” button. Okay, that last [...]
WordPress ? Disable registration emails
Whilst it great to have lot’s of new users sign up on a daily basis, I have been getting irritated by up to 50 emails a day telling me that a new user has registered. Having spent some time looking through WordPress settings and not finding a way to switch this off, I started Googling. [...]
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Academy Awards : Watch the 2011 Oscars�Online
The Academy Awards, more frequently dubbed the Oscars, are more than an event ? they’re a nationwide phenomenon. It’s little surprise, then, that as technology advances, so does the number of ways viewers can take in the entire thing. From the red carpet to interviews to the award show itself, the Web has become an [...]
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Academy Awards : Watch the 2011 Oscars Online
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How to Overcome 4 Social Media Headaches
Social Media Marketing has taken a firmer position within the marketing mix of most companies in one way or another. For some, social web participation is a natural fit. For many others, being more social isn’t in the management DNA. �Regardless, marketers are held accountable for improving the bottom line and with that comes a [...]
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Traveling for next few weeks
I’m going to be traveling for the next few weeks. I’ll be at three different conferences: February 28th – March 4th: TED. I’ll be attending, plus doing a short (three-minute) audience member talk about my 30 day challenges. March 8-10th: SMX West. I’m doing a session called The Spam Police and a panel called Ask [...]
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SEO with Users? Help
As search engine algorithms improve, and as competition increases, the pressure on SEOs to think of newer and better strategies to generate traffic to a site increases. While ?more traditional? search optimisation methods such as link building through article submissions are still very useful, it is important to find more ways to generate traffic and [...]
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Google Doodle Toasts Chinese Poet Li Bai
Famous Tang Dynasty romantic poet Li Bai, born on Feb. 28, 701, is the subject of a Doodle on Google Hong Kong today:
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Taro Okamoto Tower of the Sun Google Japan Doodle
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Google Japan has a new Doodle dedicated to Japanese artist Taro Okamoto:
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A Pilgrim?s Look Back, February 27, 2011
Starting today, we will take a look back at the past week’s Internet marketing industry news that we didn’t get a chance to talk about. This feature will occur every Sunday so you can enjoy a quiet Sunday look back at what else happened. Be sure to come back every Sunday to catch up and [...]
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Taro Okamoto Tower of the Sun Google Japan Doodle
On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Google Japan has a new Doodle dedicated to Japanese artist Taro Okamoto:
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American Idol and UFC Make Facebook Part of the Show
In another sign that Facebook is taking over the world, American Idol and mixed-martial arts masters UFC are both moving forward with applications that make the social media site a big part of their plans. This past January, UFC offered two exclusive mixed-martial arts fights on their Facebook page and watched as 130,000 new people [...]
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5 Ways to Overdo Your SEO
5 Ways to Overdo Your SEO
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Plan the Blog; Blog the Plan
This guest post is by Tricia Lawrence of Realbrilliant.com. Oh, it?s a love/hate relationship with New Year?s Resolutions, isn?t it? If you?re feeling a bit dismayed at your lack of resolution to blog better in 2011, you?re not alone. But I?m here to help. How can you get that resolution back on track? 1. Revisit [...]
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What?s going on in 2011
2011 has been a busy year so far at Branded3 HQ, we had 5 new people join the SEO team at the start of the year and after a very strong 2010 we’re looking forward to an even better 2011.
One of the reasons we’ve been winning business recently is the fact we focus 90% of [...]
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What’s going on in 2011
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How to strip JPEG metadata in Ubuntu
If you want to post some JPEG pictures but you’re worried that they might have metadata like location embedded in them, here’s how to strip that data out. First, install exiftool using this command: sudo apt-get install libimage-exiftool-perl Then, go into the directory with the JPEG files. If you want to remove metadata from every [...]
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What Are the Best UK Online Marketing Blogs?
2/8/11 5pm CST: The Poll is now closed. Vote logs will be reviewed & if necessary adjustments will be made. �The final rating of the top 5 blogs will be based on: �A review of content, post quality & quantity, Links, PR & PostRank. A review of the top 5 and “lessons learned” will be [...]
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Link Building Training: Do You Already Have All the Links You Need?
Posted by willcritchlow
You've got all the links you need, right?
No matter how advanced an SEO you are, there are few people who can make that claim (in-house at Wikipedia, maybe?). For the rest of us, there's more to learn.
Over the last couple of weeks, I have been working with our speakers to plan the sessions for the advanced link building conferences we are running in New Orleans and London. Keep reading for the full line up of speakers and sessions.
I have learnt a load of things just in speaking to all these experts during prep. I can't wait to hear the gems they are going to share in person. We're focussing on the advanced end of things - I've asked all our speakers to focus on teaching you things I don't already know. Our speakers are ready to deliver only the most up-to-date advice and implementable suggestions for taking your link building project to the next level. Further down on this page, we've got details of what each and every one of these experts will be teaching you.
In the meantime, here are the particulars:
- London - 18th March 2011: (tickets cost £399 +VAT - or £299 +VAT with SEOmoz PRO)
- New Orleans - 25th March 2011: (tickets cost $600 - or $450 with SEOmoz PRO)
Incidentally, remember that SEOmoz currently has a free trial promotion running for PRO membership. We're offering a PRO discount on the training. Yes, that means you just need to sign up for the SEOmoz free trial to get the discount.
This post is all about making the pitch that you should make the trip. The cities are worth it just for themselves - in the words of the everywhereist:
"I suggest you put down whatever you are doing and go, immediately."
"I am finding myself with the overwhelming desire to pack up my bag and hop on the next flight to Heathrow"
As well as all the serious learning, there'll be an opportunity to hang out with the speakers and attendees at after-parties in both cities. I can't wait.
Who is speaking?
The line-up is pretty damn cool - we only ask people to come and speak when we have seen them deliver the goods before and then we brief them to give the presentation of their lives. The goal is advanced tips and tricks. You know how the value is normally shared privately in the bar at conferences? We're trying to push that stuff on stage. Here's the line-up:
- Rand Fishkin (you might have heard of him) - always pushing the boundaries of the next thing you need to know, Rand's presentations are always unmissable and we push him hard to bring his best material to these sessions
- Wil Reynolds of Seer Interactive - Wil is not only one of the smartest SEOs I've ever met, but you can't help but smile as you watch him speak. The man's a dynamo. I can't wait to hear some more of his stories.
- Jane Copland of Ayima - many of you got to know Jane during her days at SEOmoz before she moved across the pond to Ayima. Few people have worked hands-on with the kinds of brands that Jane sees daily. She's bringing some great tips and I'm thrilled to have her speaking at another of our events.
- Russ Jones of Virante - I have learnt huge amounts from Russ over the years. Back when I got started in SEO, we used to exchange views right here in the SEOmoz comments. He's one of those rare people who combines technical and marketing chops. The stuff he talked about when we spoke to plan his session was brilliant. A must-see speaker.
- Chris Bennett of 97th Floor (US only) - Chris is not only a nice guy, he runs one of the most effective link building companies around and he's promised to share his secrets. I last saw him speak in London last year and I'm still trying to incorporate some of the lessons into the way we do things.
- Martin MacDonald of Seatwave (UK) and Kris Roadruck of click2rank (US) - two guys who have taught me more than I sometimes want to know about the shadier arts. Both can play the whitehat game, but both know exactly what works and where the limits are. I'm pushing them hard to share the real secrets of their research so that those of us who work with clients and brands can learn appropriate tactics and amuse ourselves with tales of derring-do.
- Not forgetting myself, Distilled's own Tom Critchlow and Paddy Moogan (UK only) - you probably know Tom and me. Some of you might not know that Tom is now in Seattle running SEO and content for SEOmoz for a few months and working with our US office. It's been great learning and growing alongside my bro over the last few years - I don't think it's biased to say that he has a lot to teach. Many of you will also know Paddy who is one of our more recent UK hires and team leads (if you don't know Paddy, I recommend reading one of his recent personal blog posts to get a feeling for the passion he brings to his work - he's one of the most effective SEOs I know).
What are they going to be talking about?
Link building mistakes - Wil Reynolds
I was as shocked as anyone to hear that Wil has made mistakes. Luckily he's man enough to tell us about them and help us avoid making the same ones. He'll also be calling out some of us (in a friendly way) with "link building mistakes made by advanced SEOs":
- Common misconceptions
- Mistakes made by advanced SEOs
- Mistakes we've made and lessons we've learnt
- Too much strategy = no actual links. Too little strategy = poor results. How do you find the right balance?
Getting actions from competitor research - Jane Copland
There has been plenty written about clever ways to see what your competitors are doing to build links. Jane is going to be showing us how you should build an actual plan based on what you see from your competitor research:
- Why should you bother researching what your competitors are doing?
- What should you do when you find different kinds of links and tactics?
- What should you definitely not copy? - How to work out what is not actually helping other sites
Where to get the old "linkbait on digg" effect - Russ Jones
You remember when Digg could take your server down? Definitely happened to me a few times. Before Digg it was Slashdot (OK, I'm showing my age now). What works now? How should you go about getting links to your linkbait these days? Russ and his company are at the forefront of understanding this stuff and he has some amazing data and great insights to share. He's going to talk about:
- Infographics and widget-bait on social media
- How to use real-time analytics
- Real-world statistics - insight into actual traffic from different sites
- Where are the up-and-coming traffic sources?
- Who's on the decline?
- How do you actually get links from your linkbait [with real case studies and examples]
How to structure a major link building project - Tom Critchlow
You may have heard by now that Tom is in Seattle for a few months running SEO and content strategy for SEOmoz. He's already feeling the pressure of doing SEO under the microscope, so we thought we'd just turn that up a couple notches. He is going to present his strategy for getting SEOmoz the links they need (once he's worked out what those are!). Thanks to Rand and the team for their typical transparency in allowing Tom to talk about all of this publicly. The details of this session are TBC because Tom hasn't done the work yet (he landed in Seattle on Saturday), but I imagine it will cover:
- Working out what links SEOmoz needs
- Thinking about how to move the needle on a site with millions of inbound links
- Building a link building ethos into the company (he's only there for a few months so it has to continue after he's gone)
- What developers, product people, community managers and executives can do to build links
We're all pretty excited to see the results of this one, as you can imagine. It's a rare chance to see into the inner workings of a link building campaign.
Myths and case studies of outreach success - Paddy Moogan (UK) and Chris Bennett (US)
When I'm talking to people at conferences and answering Q&A, outreach is one of the topics that people find hardest to get their head around and make work consistently. Paddy and Chris bring different perspectives to this one, but both of them will be talking about:
- Content that works
- Great content != links
- Outreach for traffic
- Outreach for branding
- Outreach for links
- Tips and tricks of what actually works in the real world
And that takes us up to lunch time! I feel tired already just thinking about it.
After lunch:
The future of link building - Rand Fishkin
We are increasingly seeing that off-site signals other than traditional followed links are critically important parts of any link building campaign. Rand called this before it was officially announced and I'm excited to hear him talk about the impact some of these new signals have on ranking as well as analysing some other recent trends to look into the future of link building:
- Social media shares that aren't links
- Why you should care
- How to get them
- The benefits of nofollow / private / emailed links
- The impact of usage data
- The future of search engines' link analysis
- Context / LDA
- Page analysis, chunking and position on the page
Lessons from the dark side - Martin MacDonald (UK) and Kris Roadruck (US)
Following the strategic, forward-looking session from Rand, we're going to head straight into some down-and-dirty 'effective' tactics. Martin and Kris consistently blow my mind with the information they share in private. I'm pulling them, blinking, into the light. I believe that every SEO should have an appropriate interest in darker tactics to really understand how everything works. You'd be amazed at the filthy tactics some of the whitest SEOs have experimented with on their own time.
Martin and Kris have promised to share some of the tactics they know work that they'd normally only talk about over a beer. You'd never use these on a client or brand site, but in my opinion, you need to understand why they work and learn to apply some of the principles and automation to your day job:
- Disclaimer [important!]
- LinkSoup - the vital ingredients of a great link and how to mix them together
- How to make links and influence the SERPs
- Watch your back... links
- Go big or go home - how to scale, automate and compete
Scaling white hat link building - Me
White hat link building tactics tend to be labour-intensive. If you really want to compete with white hat tactics, you need to think hard about how you can scale without access to all the automation and time-saving tricks of your greyer competitors. Some of this is sensibly learning from them where you can, some is accepting that you need to scale with elbow grease and thinking about how you can manage that. I will be covering:
- Ways to scale
- Manpower
- Budget
- Automation
- Outsourcing
- The role of scalable content
- Why and how
- Cost vs. quality
- Incorporating brand and strategy
Expert Q&A and final tips
What's the point of getting all these experts in a room if you can't hear their biggest secrets? There will be Q&A at the end of each session for specific questions, but we'll also be wrapping up each day with a group session where each speaker gives up their top tip and all the speakers answer the audience's toughest questions.
In the UK, we will be dedicating this session to the memory of Jaamit Durrani who passed away at the end of last year and whose passion for sharing knowledge was unsurpassed. Some of his family and OMD colleagues will be there and the evening drinks will include a fundraising element in his memory.
If all of this sounds like your kind of thing, go book your tickets. Don't forget the PRO discount (go get yourself a free month's PRO trial if you need it to get the discount).
In addition to the unparalleled expertise we have gathered together, we have some social fun planned as well. The VIP dinners the night before the shows are now sold out in both venues, but there will be a chance to pick the speakers' brains and mingle with other attendees over drinks at after-parties in both cities.
I look forward to seeing you there.
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5 Steps for Getting Out of a Google Penalty
5 Steps for Getting Out of a Google Penalty
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Demand Media Looks to Ease Investors? Searching Minds
If you are Demand Media yesterday?s Google events were probably a little disconcerting to say the least. The company is just coming out of the quiet period after raising some serious coin in a January IPO. All along they have warned about how dependent they are on results like Google search to drive traffic and [...]
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How I Quit My Day Job and Became a Blogger
I remember, in the early days of building a business around my blogs, being given the sage advice, “don’t give up your day job” when I told friends or family members about my dreams of becoming a full-time blogger. It was advice that was well-meaning, and probably pretty wise on some levels?I mean, who had [...]
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How I Quit My Day Job and Became a Blogger
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5 Effective Methods for Using Social Networking to Get New Business
5 Effective Methods for Using Social Networking to Get New Business
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Inspired by Iceland & Microsoft ? Social Media & the Marketing Mix
The last session of the day on the last day of SES London was on Social Media in the Marketing Mix with Kristjan Hauksson of Nordic eMarketing in Iceland and Mel Carson of Microsoft in London. Kristjan started things off:�What happens when a volcano goes wrong? �He recounted the situation last year when Eyjafjallajokul erupted [...]
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Nine Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post?Fast
This guest post is by Ali Luke of Aliventures. Did your latest post get all the readers, comments and tweets that it deserved? Probably not. You wrote a great piece, but somehow, it seemed bland. Your ideas were good, but the post lacks a little something. What you need is more spice. Here are nine [...]
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Nine Ways to Spice Up Any Blog Post?Fast
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Interview: Jay Baer on The Now Revolution
While at OMS and SES Accelerator this week, I bumped into (literally) my friend Jay Baer who has just published a new book with co-author Amber Naslund called The Now Revolution. I am reading it now and may do a full review, but I asked Jay about a few core principles or shifts from the [...]
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How to Brand Your Blog?s YouTube Channel
This guest post is by Jenny Dean of Business Blog Writers. Whether you run a business with a YouTube channel, you’re a blogger whose blog has a complementary YouTube channel, or you’re someone with a blog who’s thinking of setting up a YouTube channel, you may be interested in knowing how to brand a YouTube [...]
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How to Brand Your Blog?s YouTube Channel
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Going Beyond SEO to CRO
A good SEO knows that search engine optimisation is just a means to an end. Once you lose sight of that, it is very likely that you will someday end up lost in strategies and methods that are out dated and cannot compete with newer and more efficient strategies that deliver what the client really [...]
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WANTED: Software Engineers REWARD: $12,000
Posted by randfish
In 2010, SEOmoz's software business grew from 4,000 - 7,000 subscribers and $3.1mm - $5.7mm in revenue (more transparency on details coming soon). Our customers have been loving our products (our web app now supports nearly 30K campaigns) and our data (over 250 companies use our API), but we're nowhere near satisfied.
(*note: consulting revenue, which ended in 2009, is not included; 2011 revenue is estimated)
It's our belief that growth is limited only by how much we can surprise, delight and reward our customers with software that rocks. We want to build more, faster and that's why today, we're announcing a new effort in bringing talented software engineers to the SEOmoz team.
Have Engineer Friends? Send 'Em Our Way
Why should you send your engineer friends to SEOmoz? Three big reasons:
- They'll be joining an amazing team at a great company earning top salaries at a place that values their contributions (see below)
- You'll get $12,000 in cash* (OK, probably a check, but still!)
- They'll also get $12,000 in cash**
We're seeking 4-5 very talented engineers (possibly more) with experience handling large-scale problems like machine learning, web crawling, building and optimizing web services (APIs), coping with large quantities of data and dealing in massively distributed systems. You can learn more about the job requirements here.
Engineers: Challenging Problems, Brilliant Co-Workers & Some Cool Bonuses Await You, Too
As part of this process, we're making things interesting for talented engineers, too:
- If you refer/apply yourself, you'll receive a $12,000 cash hiring bonus**
- If you're not in the Seattle area, we can offer up to $10,000 to help you (and your family) move to the area
- If you make it to our final interview round (for a chat with our full team), you'll walk out with a free iPad
- Start your new job right with a $5,000 shopping budget to spend on the hardware/software/accessories of your choice (for either home or office!). Need a new desk and chair set for you spare bedroom to work those odd hours in comfort? Go for it. New laptop? No problem.
- Salaries for engineers at SEOmoz are substantively above the average/median for Seattle (according to Payscale, Glassdoor, SimplyHired). We'll be on par with the offers you get from Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, etc. in cash, and we're even better on stock.
- Benefits at SEOmoz rock - we have a great health and dental plan (for you and your family / S.O.), we'll cover your home Internet and your cellphone bill, 20 days of vacation time annually, transportation options, 401K plans and more.
That said, we should all be picky about where we work and where we interview. It's not just about the salary, the bonus, the iPad or the shopping spree - there are other things that matter to us (and likely to you) when considering where to work:
- Will I be working on fun, interesting problems that will challenge me professionally and grow my skills?
- Will I learn from my co-workers and influence them positively?
- Does the company compensate generously and appropriately?
- Does my work make a recognizable impact on the company and the world?
- Am I contributing to a mission I believe in and a company whose core values I respect?
It's my belief that SEOmoz does a solid job on all of these:
- The problems we face include "web scale" challenges - crawling, indexing and building metrics on billions of pages; collecting, filtering and making sense of millions of pieces of social data from Facebook, Twitter and other platforms; serving massive amounts of data to thousands of paying customers in a performant environment.
- The engineering team at SEOmoz is a remarkable and talented group. You'll be side-by-side with engineers with impressive backgrounds and serious accomplishments on the product and technology side.
- We are in the top quartile of compensation for software engineers in Seattle and our benefits, stock options and perks are considerably above the average.
- What you build will have a direct, measurable impact on our subscribers - and you'll be able to see it in the membership statistics and hear it directly through our many feedback channels (we get more than 300 messages about our products each week!). And, you won't just be helping SEOmoz customers - our mission of making it easier for ideas to be shared on the web is carried out every day, and we have tons of great stories and feedback to show it.
- We think it's great that Google, Bing, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and the entire web ecosystem have built such remarkable platforms for sharing information. But, it's hard to get noticed in all the noise and hard to know what will help make your ideas scale and spread. That where SEOmoz comes in - our software is meant to help companies and organizations of all sizes and shapes to better spread their messages in organic, white hat ways. It's a mission we've found incredibly rewarding and we think you will, too.
Why Do We Need So Much Engineering Talent?
Because SEOmoz is taking off.
Today, we provide some of the web's best and more popular software to help marketers understand, evaluate and improve their SEO efforts. In the months to come, we're expanding to help marketers conquer all of organic marketing - from SEO to social media to blogging, local campaigns, content marketing, PR/media and more. This means huge challenges like increasing the size, freshness and quality of our web index (currently ~45billion pages, moving up to 100 billion), building a "mention" index on our Blogscape platform that lets marketers see where their brand names are being used across the web (even if no direct links exist), scaling analytics, improving our machine learning algorithms, exponentially growing our data storage while simultaneously making things faster.
And, unfortunately (or fortunately), our requirements for engineering talent are extremely high. We interview a lot of candidates and need not only the best and brightest in challenging fields (machine learning, large-scale crawling, natural language processing, large-scale distributed systems, etc.), but folks who fit with our core values of TAGFEE.
We owe it to our customers and our mission to build amazing software and that means recruiting remarkable engineers. It's great to be a profitable startup, but money sitting in the bank won't do us, or our community any good. We want to put these dollars to work and build something revolutionary - we're aiming to be the future of organic web/inbound marketing software.
Top 10 Reasons Why Should You Join SEOmoz
Because a post like this wouldn't be complete without a top 10 list!
- Interesting, Challenging Problems (strategic and technical, and often on a very large scale)
- Engineering Centric Company (development and software are the core of our company's product and the largest team - you won't be in the "IT department," you'll be a key member at the heart of SEOmoz)
- Customer Focused Roadmap (we don't just build things that sound interesting, we build things we know our customers want, need and use - and when we do, we get great feedback directly from thousands of paying members)
- Transparency (you'll always know how the company is doing week-to-week and quarter by quarter. Virtually every metric except salaries are shared throughout the organization)
- Profitability (we're in the black - no burning runways or panicked cries for venture capital. We've got a proven business model and we've been doubling our revenue for 3 years)
- Excellent Compensation (We pay in the top range of salaries for software engineers in Seattle based on experience + skills. You won't have to sacrifice pay to work at a great startup vs. a behemoth)
- Amazing Co-Workers (Ask anyone in the Seattle tech, marketing or startup community and they'll tell you - SEOmoz's people aren't just talented, they're truly good people who care about each other and are a pleasure to spend time with)
- Flat Organization (If you struggle against the politics and bureaucratic inefficiencies of a big organization, you'll love it here. We have smallish teams, 30 people in total, and only a single layer of management - you'll report directly to the VP of Engineering)
- We Listen (Our engineers have contributed substantively to the product roadmap, to new ideas we implement, even to how we decorate the office)
- Great Benefits, Perks + Fun Stuff (we play Xbox Kinect on Friday afternoons, snacks in the office, 401K plans, flexible and generous vacation time, a great health/dental plan and more on the way)
We hope you'll send your friends, family members and fellow Venture Brothers addicts our way :-)
* NOTE: The referrer will receive this bonus only after the engineer stays employed at SEOmoz for at least 90 days after his or her start date. The referrer must also complete and return a w-9 in order to receive the bonus. The referrer is responsible for paying taxes on the referral bonus. Also, to qualify for the referral bonus, the successful candidate must have accepted our offer of employment within four months of your referral.
**NOTE: The $12,000 signing bonus applies to all new engineering candidates, but must be paid back if you leave the company prior to 12 months.
One more note: Candidates must be eligible to work in the US (citizenship, green card, visa, etc). While we'd love to recruit more from out of the country, it's not yet something we have the resources/connections to provide.
p.s. We also want to acknowledge our friends in Cambridge and the crew at EnergySavvy, who are both offering a $10K referral bonus currently (it's a great time to be, or know, an engineer!)
Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/seomoz/~3/3XKonAm93Z4/wanted-software-engineers-reward-12000
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